I didn't hear anything more of him till I was driving cattle in Montana, when I discovered he was one of the worst rustlers in that part of the world.

I'm sartin he has done a good many things fur which he ought to hang, but he's more cunning in his way than the Sioux, and has kept out of the penitentiary when anyone else would have been doing a life-term.

Bill is a great gambler, and has made and lost fortunes, but he is always out of money and figgering how to git it ag'in.

There isn't anything too mean fur him to do fur money.
He doesn't care any more fur the feelings of others than Geronimo." "It looks as if the plan of abducting Fred and holding him for ransom is his." "There ain't no doubt of it; he come to the ranch soon after we'd gone and larned all 'bout you tenderfeet from the boys themselves.

The thought come to him at once that one of the chances of his lifetime was his.